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o o o 0 FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) C o "Zveryone In 6outUern Oregon Reads Th Mall Tribune" PubUJhed Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR Man"1"? Editor KARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, T&.erapn Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second clam matter at Mediord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1B97 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per Copy lOe Daily and Sunday One year $1 00 f Daily and Sunday Six months 8.00 w Daily and Sunday Three mos -25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medlord Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville, Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rorue River. Talent and on motor routes: - Daily and Sunday One year $18 00 Daily and Sunday One month ISO Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jaefcson t'onnty United fress Full Leased Wire MEMBER Or AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY WC Offices in New York Chicago, ae troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland St Louis Atlanii Vancouver B.C. O" NEWS PA P E K PUBLISHEtS ASSOCIATION o NATIONAL EOlTORIAt I ASSOCiA'ieN nzrEZsxm Fligltf o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 10. 1947 (Wednesday) Two Tucker Sno-Cats are now en route tcPVefmont for use in recreation areas in that state ac cording to E. M. Tucker, presi dent of the company. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "The fire place in homes is now listed as the social center in the society. There guests gather and listen to the crackling of the logs and legs." 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 12, 1937 (Friday) Erl Snell, secretary of state, will be guest speaker at a mass meeting at Medford senior high school at 2 p.m. Sunday. The meeting is being sponsored by the Townsend clubs of the city. Santa Claus paid his first 1937 visit to Medford yesterday, and exactly 1396 kiddies met the jolly fellow at the Jackson coun ty chamber of Commerce and received gifts of candy, balloons and toys. 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 10. 1927 (Saturday) Christmas trees by the truck load are leaving for California, according to Edgar Johnson, local market owner. A complete meal prepared from milk and cream products a phase of the Snider's Dairy exhibit at the Better Homes Ex position at the Armory today. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 10. 1917 (Monday) . From local and personal col umn: The county clerks, commis sioners, judges and prosecuting attorneys will hold their annual meeting (ft Portland next Wed nesday, Thursday and Friday. Cinna iht oamnaiffn to con serve food, sugar consumption Has decreased uiie-umu ouu uk t t viit-frtn and nnrlr has Ul UCCl, uiufcLU" " ' f " fallen off a third. The same fig ures noid true wun provisions in general. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten eorTeet Is superior; seven or eight is excellent: five or six is goad. 1. A musket is sometimes called a queen's arm, foot, or head? i 2. Bible: How many years of wilderness-wandering was spent by the Israelites? 3. For what industry is Grand Rapids, Mich., famous? 4. Will soaking poisonous mushrooms in salt water render them harmless? 5. Name the president of the United Automobile Workers? 6. Sowbugs are crustaceans, reptiles, or insects? 7. What is the term of office of the president in Argentina? 8. Gold is weighed by the fluid, troy, or avoirdupois ounce? 9. Are porpoises classed as reptiles, mammals, or fish? 10. Name the author of "Das Kapital." Answers: 1. Arm. 2. Forty. 3 Furniture manufacturing. 4. No. 5. Walter P. Reuiher. 6. Crusta . ceans. 7. Six years. 8. Troy. 9. Mammals. 10. Karl Marx. MAIL TRIBUNE Silly Alibis For Blooper On the "Ed Sullivan Show" Sunday night, a young British gal connected, in some way, with the Hearst Press, put in a plea for whoever was responsible for the Cape Canaveral rocket flop, by asking somewhat stridently, how the preliminary bally-hoo and build up could have been avoided, with that crowd of news paper men, with their field-glasses fixed night and day on the launching platform? It is hard to believe the young lady spoke with out William Randolph's permission for he was in the audience and yet it is even harder to believe that "the-Much-Travelled-Bill" could have sanctioned such a nonsensical alibi. For a clearer case of "putting the cart before the horse" could hardly be imagined. THE newspaper and the radio boys, over in the woods somewThere, were not the cause of the advance "build-up," they were the result. SOMEone, SOMEwhere in SOME place of au thority, either invited or allowed the publicity-hounds in, to view the "great ascension" ; and they also tipped off the press that at a certain hour on a certain day the administration would place ITS "Sputnik" into an orbit encircling the earth. It is certainly peculiar, particularly one working for the Hearst chain should make the charge, direct or by implication, that not a "boner" in some U.S. publicity department, was re sponsible for the debacle, but the American press! She should, we think, stay a little longer in the "states" before she rushes on the stage of a national "TV" hook-up to pop off concerning something she clearly knows nothing about. EVIDENCE to establish the falsity of her charge is plentiful. Also the silliness of the claim that the advance "bally-hoo" was due largely to the proximity of Cape Carnaveral to one of Florida s winter resorts. How silly can we get? If there were any truth to either, why is it that at the same place innumerable rocket-tests have been made for months without any advance publicity what ever. At least one U.S. rocket succeeded in hitting its target two or three thousand miles away. More of them however, failed. Why was there no fan-fare if publicity at Cape Carnaveral is so hard to avoid? Only the day after the "Sputnik" fizzle, the Air Force launched a space-rocket from the same area, which was initially a success but finally failed to reach its target. Not a word of publicity was put out in advance, no flash-warnings to the press, no radio or newspaper men gathered for the veiy simple reason they knew nothing about it. If the Air Force can keep their experiments secret as they have done why. then could not the De fense Department (or whatever department was re sponsible for the Hollywood farce) have done the same? The answer is they could at Cape Canaveral or anywhere else. A second answer is that for some reason they did not WANT to. TPHE final clincher, as far as all these rocket "alibis" are concerned, is that the authorities who gave the "green light" to all that advance publicity before the zero hour approached, sensing the error of their ways have now put up the "red light" and declare there will be no such publicity hereafter. Those who wish any information they say, will now have to go direct to Washington where they should have been directed in the first place. A neater example of "closing the barn-door after the horse has been stolen" could hardly be imag ined ! R.W.R. What Might Have Been Thanks to certain friends some of them railroad men we are accumulating quite a list of successful railroads that have no more use for the SP's defeatist and spineless attitude than we have. The latest is the Missouri Pacific, whose President Russell L. Dearmont recently sent out the following Christmas greeting to the company's passenger agents, quote : "It is hard for me to accept the views of many that the railroads should get out of the passenger business as fast as they can. I can't help but have the feeling that if we would do more constructive thinking and less talking about quitting we would find a way to improve the situation. "The automobile is handling the major part of traveling done by our people. Highways are becoming more crowded every day with cars and trucks and casualties are increas ing at such a rate that I believe many people will ultimately return to our passenger trains for the safety and comfort they offer. "I would like to have you and your associates in our passenger department give serious thought to improve ments in our service that you think may encourage greater use of our trains." "AMEN!" TTHAT is one of the important points of the rail passenger- problem we have been stressing for years its greater safety and comfort. So the "Missouri Pacific" joins the leadership of so many other outstanding and enlightened railroads that have refused to follow the "Friendly SP" in its doctrine that railroad passenger service is doomed and the smart thing to do is to abandon its service WHEREVER it can, and where it can't, so impair it that there will be no patronage or not enough to pay. IT WAS really a sad day when the Southern Pacific got its rail monopoly from the U.S. government from Eugene through Medford to Dunsmuir, Cali fornia. Had the Great Northern, the-Northem Pacific, the Burlington, the Santa Fe, the Union Pacific, the Wa- Tuesday, December 10. 1957 that a newspaper girl "1 T0LO W WW! 1 OIDKT Adams Tells Inside Story of White House Reaction to Stroke Washington (IP) What went on in the White House when Editorial Comment WE SHOULD HAVE SHUT UP After we lost a tremendous propaganda battle to the Rus sians by letting them get the first satellite into space, we have now compounded that blunder by advertising we were going to launch one ourselves and then failing in the attempt. No one knows how many tries the Russians made before they were successful with their two sputniks. But for all the world knows about it they shot them up there with apparent ease and no trouble whatsoever. But us We announce that we are going to launch a satellite and then can't get the darn thing off the ground. It makes us look like a bunch of ridicu lous amateurs. We realize that under a totali tarian government the public is kept in the dark about what is going on. Thus, when the Soviet has failures no one knows about them. But even in a Republic it is not necessary to advertise ev ery attempt at everything. Re porters hanging around Cape Canaveral wouldn't have known the difference if launching plans were cancelled because of bad winds or mechanical difficul ties. It would have been time enough to tell them that the satellite was up after it hap pened if it ever does. After a first successful launching they could have been included in plans for future attempts but as things stand now we have lost prestige in the eyes of those people in the world we are try ing to impress and no matter what happens from here on out they will remember only our failures. Corvallis Gazelle Times. GREATEST FIZZLE IN HISTORY Yes, Flubnik I must have a scapegoat. We don't know who it'll be yet. But whoever's name crops up will have just a bit of our sympathy. It's fine to have several companies making soap. Each probably would stumble on to a different valuable ingre dient and all come out with an acceptable product for the com petition of the market place. But rockets and missiles aren't soap, any more than was the A-bomb. And the American public isn't nearly as much in need of a bet ter bath lather as of a proper and cohesive defense establish ment in which it is pouring bil lions year after year. The scapegoat for Flubnik I lies in the gutless approach to the unification of military pro grams and the diffusion of en ergy and brains. We aren't mere ly searching for new products. We're playing with our national life or death. And it looks like we've been doing just that, too . . . playing. Some lesson should be learn ed from the greatest propaganda fizzle in world history. Maybe a little humility will be learned, too. If we're going to keep on dissipating our resources com peting among ourselves on the guided-missile level, we'll be de serving of just about what we'll get. Oregon Statesman, Salem. bash, the Denver Rio Grande, and now the Missouri Pacific or even the New York Central whose presi dent recently declared, because a single passenger operation does not pay its way is no excuse for aban doning it Yes, if any of these railroads and probably many others had secured that franchise and those thous ands of acres of free-land, instead of the S.P., there is eveiy reason to believe, minimum of daily rail passenger service m this pros perous and growing area today, instead of NONE at all. R.W.R. MWNA 60 CLEAR HOME!' President' Eisenhower suffered his mild stroke Nov. 25. The inside story was told pub licly for the first time by Presi dential Assistant Sherman Ad ams Monday night in a speech to the Republican finance din ner at St. Louis. Adams gave this squence of avent. "The frist indication that the President was indisposed was his own statement of feeling chilled after returning from the Wash ington airport, where he went to meet officially the head of a foreign state. He had to stand in the cold for a considerable time. He thereupon went to the White House and went to bed. The doctor was called at once. "In turn the President's doc tor in consultation with other doctors diagnosed that the Pres ident had sustaned what people commonly call a minor stroke. Staff Acts Switfly "Meanwhile, on the business side of the White House, a lot of things were going on. "I at once telephoned the Vice President and advised him of the President's illness. The same message was communicat ed to various members of the President's cabinet. Key mem bers of the White House staff were notified. "The night the President sus tained his latest trouble, he was almost adamant about attending the state dinner he had arranged for the King of Morocco. The day afterwards he put up a vig orous argument about coming to his office, then talked seriously about holding a press conference Failing to talk the doctors into either of these ventures, he di rected that staff members bring him certain documents, and this was done. Activity Increases "The next day ... he got more heavily into the business of his office. The following day he left the White House to go to church with Mrs. Eisenhower. The next day he drove with Mrs. Eisenhower to his Gettysburg farm and spent the week end there. He drove back to Wash ington last Monday to attend a cabinet meeting, met with his staff on certain pending prob lems, and the following two days met with the leaders of the Congress. On Thursday he attended a two-hour meeting of the national security council." The President went to Gettys burg again last Thursday and returned to the White House Monday. Neuberger Cites Cancer Fund Need Portland (IP) Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) told Meth odist ministers of the Portland area at a breakfast meeting today that the government's major let down of its citizens during recent years has been the failure to un dertake a "crash" program, of all-out support for research into the causes and possible cures,- of cancer. "We spend countless billions of dollars for weapons of war," Neuberger said, "but it has taken persistent effort . . . since 1955 to raise the sum for cancer re search even to $56 million. Yet cancer kills nearly 10 times as many Americans in one year as were killed in fighting during three years of the Korean war," he declared. there would be at least a U.S. Again 'Re-Examines7 Aid To Tito; Finds Him Valuable By CHARLES M. McCANN Uniled Press Correspondent The United States apparently has completed another of its many "re-examinations of pol icy" toward President Tito of Yugoslavia. As the result, it is expected that American aid to Yugo slavia will be continued on the ground that Tito is a Charles McCann political asset to this country In the cold war despite the fact that he is a Com munist. This latest "re-examination" was undertaken because of sev eral developments which caused the policy makers in Washington to feel that Tito was getting too friendly with Shoivet Russia. The developments included Tito's recognition of the East German Communist puppet re gime as a sovereign government and several votes in support of Russia in the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Ambassador Visits Tilo United States Ambassador James W. Riddleberger visited Tito Friday at Brioni Island on the Adriatic Sea. Riddleberger explained the reasons for Washington's mis givings. In reply, Tito assured Riddle berger that he intended to keep the independence of Russia dom ination which he won in 1948 at In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Aftermatch of our satellite fizzle: Europe has taken time out from its own troubles to poke fun at the failure of the first U.S. satellite attempt. The nearly unanimous verdict is that Americans talk and boast too much. QUCH! " That one stings because fund amentally it is TRUE. One reason why our country is not as popular abroad as its immense achievements in the field of human rights and human dignity and human progress en title it to be is that too many generations of American tourists have gone around the world bragging about our country and belittling other countries. "JVIORE aftermath: Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson says his pre paredness committee will want to know WHY the Vanguard satellite missile exploded on the ground. He says in Amarillo in his none-too-modest home . state of Texas that he shrinks a little everv time the United States an nounces a great achievement it is GOING TO MAKE and it blows up in our faces. THAT'S what comes of brag Ring too soon. There is the classic case of the Irish-American who was watch ing a bull in a corral. The bull was snorting and blowing and bellowing and pawing up the ground. It occurred to the Irish American gentleman that it would be a wonderful idea to grab the bull by the horns and rub his nose in the dirt. The thought was so funny that he laughed until he was weak, then climbed the fence and tackled the bull which promptly hook ed a horn in the seat of his pants and tossed him over the fence. He picked himself up, brushed off his clothes and remarked: "Well begorrah, I had a good laugh, anyway." I suppose we can feel the same way about our fizzled satellite. "OUT Let's not lose our nerve. Sixteen years ago Saturday (for whatever reason) we took a TERRIBLE beating at Pearl Har bor. But we pulled ourselves to gether, humbled the Japanese war lords who had caught us napping at Pearl Harbor and supplied the punch that put Hit ler out of business. In the final pinches, when all the chips are down, we Ameri cans can be every bit as great as we THINK we are. That's something for Kruschev and his gang to remember. EX-CONGRESSMAN DIES Philadelphia OP) Former Republican Congressman James Gallagher, 90, original support er of legislation to have the In dependence Hall area designated a national shrine, died ' at his home here Sunday. Gallagher served in the House from -1943 to 1945 and from 1947 to 1949. He was the founder of Gallagher Warehouses, Inc. EMERGENCY NUMBERS FIRE SP 2-2333 POLICE SP 3-3636 MONEY SP 3-5308 A DfVISKM OF MQflC PACIFIC INDUSTRIAL 16 S. CENTRAL the risk of his career and even of his life. . There hardly seems to be any ground for surprise at Tito's answer. Two things about Tito and his policies seem to be pretty clear to anybody who reads the news papers. 1. He has no intention of re suming the position he held in the Communist world before he rebelled at Soviet domination nine years ago. 2. He is a Communist. He has been a Communist since his youth. It is necessary for any western government, in its relations with Yugoslavia, to decide whether Tito's independence of Russian domination outweighs the fact that he is a Communist. Tito Considered Asset The United States seems to have decided once more, as it has done so many time in the past, that Tito is an asset to the West. Tito's recognition of East Ger many was a blunder. West Ger many had threatened to break relations with any country that recognized the puppet regime. Tito thought he could get away with it and was shocked when Sen. Hayden Sets New Senate Service Mark By Congressional Quarterly Washington (CQ) The only Senator who has served in Con gress ever since his state was admitted to the Union is quietly setting new records on Capitol Hill. The lawmaker is Sen. Carl Hayden (D-Ariz.); his records art for length of Congressional serv ice. Hayden, the Senate's dean and President Pro Tempore, last Oct. 21 set a record for longest continuous service in both House and Senate by outdistancing the 45-year, 8-month mark set by the late Illinois Rep. Adolph J Sabath (D) in 1952. Upon completion of his 46th year in Congress Feb. 19, Hay den also will hold the record for longest total service in both chambers. On that day he will pass the mark of another one time Illinois Representative, Jo seph G. (Uncle Joe) Cannon (R), who served from 1873-1923. First to House Hayden first came to Congress in 1912 as a Representative, five days after Arizona became a state. He was in the House for 15 years before moving to the Senate in 1927. Although he has served in the Senate longer than any current Senator nearly 31 years Hay den is far from an all-time pace setter in that respect. Francis Emroy Warren was a Republican Senator from Wyoming for 37 years intermittently, ending in 1929. And the late Kenneth D. McKellar (D-Tenn.) served for 36 consecutive years ending in 1953. Although no other member of Congress can match Hayden's record, 14 of his colleagues have been around for 30 years or more. The longevity crown among currently serving Representa tives is worn by Speaker Sam Rayburn (D-Texas), with nearly 44 years of continuous service to his credit. "Mr. Sam," who has been Speaker slightly more than 14 years, longer than any one else in history, is out-ranked in the all-time longevity sweep stakes only by Hayden and Sabath. The only other member of the 40-year club is Rep. Carl Vinson (D-Ga.), who has been answering House roll calls for more than 43 years. All-American Rep. Daniel A. Reed (R-N.Y.) holds fourth place among sitting members. In his youth an All American foptball player and amateur heavyweight wrestling champion of the U.S., Reed has served nearly 39 years. Counsel With . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP-2-4940 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. West Germany carried out its threat. As regards support of Russian policies in the U.N., Tito is a Communist for one thing. For another, if he antagonizes Russia too greatly, he will find himself in another fight with the Kremlin. There was one new develop ment in the latest American re examination. Tito is said to have told Am bassador Riddleberger that he was getting tired of being re examined so often. Dispatches from Belgrade say that Tito told Riddleberger that the re-examinations made the United States undependable as a source of weapons and that he would seek them elsewhere in future. This caused some surprise. Tito has been getting very little military aid for some time. The first reaction to the report was that Tito might be threat ening to seek arms from Russia. He might do that, of course. But later reports said he might seek them from' other countries, in cluding Great Britain, France and Sweden. In any event, American eco nomic aid to YugoslaviaOis continue. Other Capitol Hill old-timers are Reps. Clarence Cannon (D Mo.), John Taber (R-N.Y.) and Emanuel -Celler (D-N.Y.), each with nearly 35 years in the House. Sens. Lister Hill (D-Ala.) and Matthew M. Neely (D-W.Va.) both have mora than 34 years' i . -1 . 1 1 -r t service, pan oi u in me nouse. Minority Leader Joseph VO Mar tin Jr. (R-Mass.) is nearmg ms 33rd anniversary of House serv ice, as is Rep. Thomas A. Jenkins (R-Ohio). Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers (R Mass.), the only woman on the list, has served 32V years. Next in length of service are three other GOP Representatives: Au gust H. Andresen (Minn.), 31 years, and B. Carroll Reece (Tenn.) and Charles A. Wolver ton (N.J.), nearly 30 years and 10 months each. Although some of these veter ans are in their 80s and most are in their 70s, the oldest Member of Congress is only nearing his 20th anniversary. Sen. Theodore Francis Green (D-R.I.), 90, now the oldest man ever to serve in Congress, came to th. Senate in 1937. (Copyright 1957. Congressional Quarterly Inc.) 86 Proof Schieffelln &Co..JMewYorkaN.Y. Importers Since 1794- REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR? It was only 16 years ago yes terday that our nation, caught by surprise, suffered such great loss of lives and property. As a nation we're now pre pared to meet and repel unex pected attacks. How about you as individuals? Have you safe- guarded your lives and prop erty with sufficient insurance? Bill Fish don x I Rum I O
